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University of Illinois nets 14,000 MOOC students with Coursera

Published July 18, 2012
By
Lindsey Smith
digitalart
  • Since Coursera, a for-profit online education company, announced Tuesday that it would be partnering with 12 new universities; about 50,000 students have enrolled in new free online classes.
  • According to Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, 14,000 of the newly enrolled are students at the University of Illinois, which agreed to offer 10 courses, the most popular being a class on developing applications for smartphones.
  • Although Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC’s) through Coursera are free and available to an unlimited number of students, Universities may implement a course-completion certificate fee.

From the article:

The University of Illinois’ initial free online courses attracted about 14,000 enrollments on the first day of registration, according to the company partnering with the university on the project. …
 

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